Simon Bestwick
@thebestwick.bsky.social
Butler to Cate Gardner. Writes horror and other weird stuff. Raised in Manchester, living on the Wirral, pining for Wales. Loves dogs, tea, and Pepsi Max. Bi. He/him.
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Simon Bestwick
@thebestwick.bsky.social
· Mar 13
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Thread: If you're boycotting Amazon, here's where you to buy my books without giving money to Jeff Bezos:
My novels Tide of Souls, The Faceless & The Feast of All Souls & the mini-collection Let's Drink To The Dead - Rebellion Publishing's website, here: rebellionpublishing.com/product.../s...
My novels Tide of Souls, The Faceless & The Feast of All Souls & the mini-collection Let's Drink To The Dead - Rebellion Publishing's website, here: rebellionpublishing.com/product.../s...
It's the end of the month and I've got shopping to do, so I'm shamelessly busking! :) If you enjoy this eerie tale for a hot summer's day you're under no obligatiion, but feel free to make a donation if you're so inclined.
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August 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It's the end of the month and I've got shopping to do, so I'm shamelessly busking! :) If you enjoy this eerie tale for a hot summer's day you're under no obligatiion, but feel free to make a donation if you're so inclined.
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A Game In Yellow by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social.
This really is something just extraordinary. Like The King In Yellow, this book has done something to my head. In a good way. I think. Not for the first time, I am in awe and envy of this writer.
This really is something just extraordinary. Like The King In Yellow, this book has done something to my head. In a good way. I think. Not for the first time, I am in awe and envy of this writer.
August 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A Game In Yellow by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social.
This really is something just extraordinary. Like The King In Yellow, this book has done something to my head. In a good way. I think. Not for the first time, I am in awe and envy of this writer.
This really is something just extraordinary. Like The King In Yellow, this book has done something to my head. In a good way. I think. Not for the first time, I am in awe and envy of this writer.
Free book! Download the 2013 collection THE CONDEMNED (long out of print) absolutely free of charge! But please consider making a donation to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) if you do.
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The Condemned: A free book for Palestine and MAP | Simon Bestwick
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August 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Free book! Download the 2013 collection THE CONDEMNED (long out of print) absolutely free of charge! But please consider making a donation to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) if you do.
www.patreon.com/posts/136304...
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Paul Pinn, who passed away in 2016, was a terrific and highly original author of horror fiction, and deserves to be remembered far more widely than he is right now. I talk a bit about him over at Marni Scofidio's website.
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Paul Pinn: A Tribute, by Simon Bestwick
5 May 2016I didn’t know Paul Pinn that well on a personal level; we met in person once or twice, spoke on the phone a handful of times, and corresponded by email. He wasn’t much taller than me, as I r...
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May 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Paul Pinn, who passed away in 2016, was a terrific and highly original author of horror fiction, and deserves to be remembered far more widely than he is right now. I talk a bit about him over at Marni Scofidio's website.
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I don’t want to deter people who are finally waking up to how bleak and disastrous this shit is - hooray, wow etc - but it is monstrously aggravating that they were all told this at length ten years ago, and reacted much like they were being mooed at by annoying cows. *No shit* lads, do you think?
April 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I don’t want to deter people who are finally waking up to how bleak and disastrous this shit is - hooray, wow etc - but it is monstrously aggravating that they were all told this at length ten years ago, and reacted much like they were being mooed at by annoying cows. *No shit* lads, do you think?
In which I'm interviewed by the magnificent Marni Scofidio!
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April 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In which I'm interviewed by the magnificent Marni Scofidio!
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Coming next month:
@ememess.bsky.social says RESURRECTION BLUES is “Rich and uncanny, melancholy yet uplifting, a tale of redemption and renewal that – like the blues itself – manages to feel both fresh-minted and as old as time.”
Preorder from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/resurrection...?
@ememess.bsky.social says RESURRECTION BLUES is “Rich and uncanny, melancholy yet uplifting, a tale of redemption and renewal that – like the blues itself – manages to feel both fresh-minted and as old as time.”
Preorder from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/resurrection...?
April 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Coming next month:
@ememess.bsky.social says RESURRECTION BLUES is “Rich and uncanny, melancholy yet uplifting, a tale of redemption and renewal that – like the blues itself – manages to feel both fresh-minted and as old as time.”
Preorder from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/resurrection...?
@ememess.bsky.social says RESURRECTION BLUES is “Rich and uncanny, melancholy yet uplifting, a tale of redemption and renewal that – like the blues itself – manages to feel both fresh-minted and as old as time.”
Preorder from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/resurrection...?
The new issue of Nightmare Abbey is out now, featuring my story 'The Hadrian Hornpipe' alongside that of many other cool writers like Stephen Volk, Steve Rasnic Tem, Helen Grant, Gary McMahon, John Llewellyn Probert and more!
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Nightmare Abbey 8
Hi folks, Just a quick heads-up to let you all know that my story 'The Witch of November' is the lead tale in the latest edition of Tom Engl...
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April 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The new issue of Nightmare Abbey is out now, featuring my story 'The Hadrian Hornpipe' alongside that of many other cool writers like Stephen Volk, Steve Rasnic Tem, Helen Grant, Gary McMahon, John Llewellyn Probert and more!
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Yer uncle explaining why the lady he met on the internet hasn’t arrived and also why he doesn’t have any money left
April 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Yer uncle explaining why the lady he met on the internet hasn’t arrived and also why he doesn’t have any money left
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It is imo not great that we just had several years of political commentators congratulating Labour for their excellent bullshitting of the electorate to get elected, and that their polling since the public discovered what it is they had bought has been a rocket-propelled plummet.
April 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It is imo not great that we just had several years of political commentators congratulating Labour for their excellent bullshitting of the electorate to get elected, and that their polling since the public discovered what it is they had bought has been a rocket-propelled plummet.
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Indeed. And, sadly, the people who were most likely to lob this at me were female relatives.
They were very strongly of the opinion that women should be looking busy and bustling.
They were very strongly of the opinion that women should be looking busy and bustling.
I will honestly say that one of the hardest things about writing, if it's not your job (and sometimes even if it is), is that the world will tell you you're being selfish, and doubly so if you're female. It's not visibly productive, it involves you taking time and pleasure in your own head.
April 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Indeed. And, sadly, the people who were most likely to lob this at me were female relatives.
They were very strongly of the opinion that women should be looking busy and bustling.
They were very strongly of the opinion that women should be looking busy and bustling.
In something of a labour of love, @gemmafiles.bsky.social & I step through the dimension fork to talk about AN ENTIRE HORROR FRANCHISE: Don Coscarelli's 'Phantasm' films, in an episode dedicated, with love, gratitude and admiration, to the one and only Reggie Bannister.
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Don Coscarelli's 'Phantasm' films
YouTube video by No Darkness But Ours Podcast
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March 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In something of a labour of love, @gemmafiles.bsky.social & I step through the dimension fork to talk about AN ENTIRE HORROR FRANCHISE: Don Coscarelli's 'Phantasm' films, in an episode dedicated, with love, gratitude and admiration, to the one and only Reggie Bannister.
youtu.be/TfxuEPZZJu8
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I might see if I can set this thing to post "You should have voted for Corbyn, you nitwits" as a status each day automatically, as it will almost certainly be relevant to at least one current UK news headline.
March 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I might see if I can set this thing to post "You should have voted for Corbyn, you nitwits" as a status each day automatically, as it will almost certainly be relevant to at least one current UK news headline.
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The kind of thing you would read in the bombed-out basement of a building called “Agricorp HQ” in Fallout: New Vegas, and in Britain this is just what you should expect on any random Friday.
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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March 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The kind of thing you would read in the bombed-out basement of a building called “Agricorp HQ” in Fallout: New Vegas, and in Britain this is just what you should expect on any random Friday.
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Excellent news to wake up to from Joe Manco of @littlesparkfilms - the movie I wrote, The Torturer, is now streaming on the Cineverse streaming platform! The same people who are about to release the new Toxic Avenger movie! 🎥 🔨
March 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Excellent news to wake up to from Joe Manco of @littlesparkfilms - the movie I wrote, The Torturer, is now streaming on the Cineverse streaming platform! The same people who are about to release the new Toxic Avenger movie! 🎥 🔨
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Re: that M*ta/LibGen piracy post...
SINCE YOU'VE FUCKING NICKED MY FUCKING ECKO BOOKS, MAY YOU FUCKING CHOKE ON EVERY LAST FUCKING USE OF THE FUCKING WORD 'FUCK'.
Fuckers.
SINCE YOU'VE FUCKING NICKED MY FUCKING ECKO BOOKS, MAY YOU FUCKING CHOKE ON EVERY LAST FUCKING USE OF THE FUCKING WORD 'FUCK'.
Fuckers.
March 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Re: that M*ta/LibGen piracy post...
SINCE YOU'VE FUCKING NICKED MY FUCKING ECKO BOOKS, MAY YOU FUCKING CHOKE ON EVERY LAST FUCKING USE OF THE FUCKING WORD 'FUCK'.
Fuckers.
SINCE YOU'VE FUCKING NICKED MY FUCKING ECKO BOOKS, MAY YOU FUCKING CHOKE ON EVERY LAST FUCKING USE OF THE FUCKING WORD 'FUCK'.
Fuckers.
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As ever, I’d ask: What counts as “ideology” in year 17 of there being no alternative to everyone’s lives getting shittier, and what is “radicalisation” when the government is aiding and abetting genocide and almost nobody will concede that this is what it’s doing?
March 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As ever, I’d ask: What counts as “ideology” in year 17 of there being no alternative to everyone’s lives getting shittier, and what is “radicalisation” when the government is aiding and abetting genocide and almost nobody will concede that this is what it’s doing?
As a socialist, I had bugger-all expectations of Keith Stalin and Ratched Reeves, but they've actually managed to fall short even of those.
March 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
As a socialist, I had bugger-all expectations of Keith Stalin and Ratched Reeves, but they've actually managed to fall short even of those.
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It’s worth repeating that when an anti-austerity movement finally arose organically from the public, these politicians worked hand-in-glove with Britain’s national news outlets to destroy it and hound it as far out of public life as possible. So that they could do this, to everyone you know.
March 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It’s worth repeating that when an anti-austerity movement finally arose organically from the public, these politicians worked hand-in-glove with Britain’s national news outlets to destroy it and hound it as far out of public life as possible. So that they could do this, to everyone you know.
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Yes: important to understand that none of these people or the reporters explaining what happened now were hoodwinked at the time: all of them fully understood it was bullshit, reckless destruction, fraud, lying, defamation, bullying, stitch-ups and corruption. They approved of it and joined in.
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Yes: important to understand that none of these people or the reporters explaining what happened now were hoodwinked at the time: all of them fully understood it was bullshit, reckless destruction, fraud, lying, defamation, bullying, stitch-ups and corruption. They approved of it and joined in.
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Do you notice how all this is deeply evil, but also banal? I wonder if there’s been any study into this phenomenon.
Absolutely bleak as hell here, and watch everyone just go with it, because they’ve seen what happens to those who make a fuss and don’t want to get the same themselves, *at very best*.
March 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Do you notice how all this is deeply evil, but also banal? I wonder if there’s been any study into this phenomenon.
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What an absolute bellend Peter Hitchens is. A horrible, horrible person.
March 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
What an absolute bellend Peter Hitchens is. A horrible, horrible person.
Thread: If you're boycotting Amazon, here's where you to buy my books without giving money to Jeff Bezos:
My novels Tide of Souls, The Faceless & The Feast of All Souls & the mini-collection Let's Drink To The Dead - Rebellion Publishing's website, here: rebellionpublishing.com/product.../s...
My novels Tide of Souls, The Faceless & The Feast of All Souls & the mini-collection Let's Drink To The Dead - Rebellion Publishing's website, here: rebellionpublishing.com/product.../s...
rebellionpublishing.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Thread: If you're boycotting Amazon, here's where you to buy my books without giving money to Jeff Bezos:
My novels Tide of Souls, The Faceless & The Feast of All Souls & the mini-collection Let's Drink To The Dead - Rebellion Publishing's website, here: rebellionpublishing.com/product.../s...
My novels Tide of Souls, The Faceless & The Feast of All Souls & the mini-collection Let's Drink To The Dead - Rebellion Publishing's website, here: rebellionpublishing.com/product.../s...